Simon Pulleyn, a longstanding Friend of the Trust, recently drew our attention to a 1985 documentary, Queens’: A Cambridge College, in which the Trust and its first Chair, Sir Harold Bailey, appear in Episode 7, ‘Fellowship’. Two research students visit Sir Harold at the Trust. They are shown around his library in the Iran Room and given a taste of the Pahlavi Zoroastrian scripture, the Bundahišn. As he tells the students, he began work on that edition of the Bundahišn in 1933 but stopped and only resumed his work on …
